The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud Chapter 1 Page 18

take on another meaning in this connection.

Here I will stop in order that I may recapitulate the results of the analysis of the dream. By following the associations which were linked to the single elements of the dream torn from their context, I have been led to a series of thoughts and reminiscences where I am bound to recognize interesting expressions of my psychical life. The matter yielded by an analysis of the dream stands in intimate relationship with the dream content, but this relationship is so special that I should never have been able to have inferred the new discoveries directly from the dream itself.

The dream was passionless, disconnected, and unintelligible. During the time that I am unfolding the thoughts at the back of the dream I